On tame dynamical systems

• Autorzy: E. Glasner
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

A dynamical version of the Bourgain-Fremlin-Talagrand dichotomy shows that the enveloping semigroup of a dynamical system is either very large and contains a topological copy of β𝓝, or it is a "tame" topological space whose topology is determined by the convergence of sequences. In the latter case we say that the dynamical system is tame. We show that (i) a metric distal minimal system is tame iff it is equicontinuous, (ii) for an abelian acting group a tame metric minimal system is PI (hence a weakly mixing minimal system is never tame), and (iii) a tame minimal cascade has zero topological entropy. We also show that for minimal distal-but-not-equicontinuous systems the canonical map from the enveloping operator semigroup onto the Ellis semigroup is never an isomorphism. This answers a long standing open question. We give a complete characterization of minimal systems whose enveloping semigroup is metrizable. In particular it follows that for an abelian acting group such a system is equicontinuous.

Kategorie tematyczne

• 54H20: Topological dynamics

• Wydawca: Institute of Mathematics Polish Academy of Sciences
• Czasopismo: Colloquium Mathematicum
• Rocznik: 2006
• Tom: 105
• Numer: 2
• Strony: 283-295

Daty

wydano

2006

Twórcy

autor

E. Glasner

• Department of Mathematics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.4064/cm105-2-9